"...The picture is more fun than it has a right to be....Mr. Lee puts things together artfully and stages this movie like a comedy of manners; it could be SENSE AND SENSIBILITY with a body count....It's an epic that breaks the laws of gravity." New York Times "...This Cannes/New York Film Festival favorite has it all, starting with three towering central characters....[Ang Lee's film] offers melodically choreographed action scenes by THE MATRIX's Yuen Wo-Ping, Oscar-caliber photography by Peter Pau and the pleasure of seeing [Chow Yun Fat] in his most appealing performance yet..." -- 4 out of 4 stars USA Today "...A triumph....CROUCHING TIGER envelops you in its exotic universe..." Movieline's Hollywood Life "....Always entertaining and exhilarating....CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON is most notable for going beyond genre norms..."Sight and Sound "...CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON defies pigeon-holing by succeeding as a love story, an action movie and a fantasy....The best acted, best shot and most exciting film of the year..." -- 5 out of 5 stars Total Film "...A delightful one-of-a-kind martial arts romance where astounding fight sequences alternate with passionate yet idealistic love duets..." Los Angeles Times "...Exhilarating....Ang Lee stages magnificent action sequences..." Chicago Sun-Times27.56806

"...The picture is more fun than it has a right to be....Mr. Lee puts things together artfully and stages this movie like a comedy of manners; it could be SENSE AND SENSIBILITY with a body count....It's an epic that breaks the laws of gravity." New York Times "...This Cannes/New York Film Festival favorite has it all, starting with three towering central characters....[Ang Lee's film] offers melodically choreographed action scenes by THE MATRIX's Yuen Wo-Ping, Oscar-caliber photography by Peter Pau and the pleasure of seeing [Chow Yun Fat] in his most appealing performance yet..." -- 4 out of 4 stars USA Today "...A triumph....CROUCHING TIGER envelops you in its exotic universe..." Movieline's Hollywood Life "....Always entertaining and exhilarating....CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON is most notable for going beyond genre norms..."Sight and Sound "...CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON defies pigeon-holing by succeeding as a love story, an action movie and a fantasy....The best acted, best shot and most exciting film of the year..." -- 5 out of 5 stars Total Film "...A delightful one-of-a-kind martial arts romance where astounding fight sequences alternate with passionate yet idealistic love duets..." Los Angeles Times "...Exhilarating....Ang Lee stages magnificent action sequences..." Chicago Sun-Times27.56806

3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Woo's trademark affection for such traditional ideals as honor, dignity and sacrifice bleed from the screen like proudly-suffered war wounds..."Box Office "[T]he immensity encompasses such variety, subtlety and intimacy that you may find yourself yearning for more....RED CLIFF is a legendary filmmaker's visual symphony."Wall Street Journal "[H]andsome and intelligent and perfectly easy to sit through..."New York Times "The spectacular battle scenes are the engorged heart of the delirious adventure." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "[RED CLIFF] is both a throwback and a change of pace....Filled with wall-to-wall battle scenes..."Los Angeles Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "The set-piece clashes on land and water are immense but teem with fine detail....Woo has created a resounding epic, blending a distinctly Chinese ethos with a Hollywood sense of scale."Uncut20.67605

3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Woo's trademark affection for such traditional ideals as honor, dignity and sacrifice bleed from the screen like proudly-suffered war wounds..."Box Office "[T]he immensity encompasses such variety, subtlety and intimacy that you may find yourself yearning for more....RED CLIFF is a legendary filmmaker's visual symphony."Wall Street Journal "[H]andsome and intelligent and perfectly easy to sit through..."New York Times "The spectacular battle scenes are the engorged heart of the delirious adventure." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "[RED CLIFF] is both a throwback and a change of pace....Filled with wall-to-wall battle scenes..."Los Angeles Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "The set-piece clashes on land and water are immense but teem with fine detail....Woo has created a resounding epic, blending a distinctly Chinese ethos with a Hollywood sense of scale."Uncut20.67605

3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Woo's trademark affection for such traditional ideals as honor, dignity and sacrifice bleed from the screen like proudly-suffered war wounds..."Box Office "[T]he immensity encompasses such variety, subtlety and intimacy that you may find yourself yearning for more....RED CLIFF is a legendary filmmaker's visual symphony."Wall Street Journal "[H]andsome and intelligent and perfectly easy to sit through..."New York Times "The spectacular battle scenes are the engorged heart of the delirious adventure." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "[RED CLIFF] is both a throwback and a change of pace....Filled with wall-to-wall battle scenes..."Los Angeles Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "The set-piece clashes on land and water are immense but teem with fine detail....Woo has created a resounding epic, blending a distinctly Chinese ethos with a Hollywood sense of scale."Uncut20.67605

3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Woo's trademark affection for such traditional ideals as honor, dignity and sacrifice bleed from the screen like proudly-suffered war wounds..."Box Office "[T]he immensity encompasses such variety, subtlety and intimacy that you may find yourself yearning for more....RED CLIFF is a legendary filmmaker's visual symphony."Wall Street Journal "[H]andsome and intelligent and perfectly easy to sit through..."New York Times "The spectacular battle scenes are the engorged heart of the delirious adventure." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "[RED CLIFF] is both a throwback and a change of pace....Filled with wall-to-wall battle scenes..."Los Angeles Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "The set-piece clashes on land and water are immense but teem with fine detail....Woo has created a resounding epic, blending a distinctly Chinese ethos with a Hollywood sense of scale."Uncut20.67605

3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Woo's trademark affection for such traditional ideals as honor, dignity and sacrifice bleed from the screen like proudly-suffered war wounds..."Box Office "[T]he immensity encompasses such variety, subtlety and intimacy that you may find yourself yearning for more....RED CLIFF is a legendary filmmaker's visual symphony."Wall Street Journal "[H]andsome and intelligent and perfectly easy to sit through..."New York Times "The spectacular battle scenes are the engorged heart of the delirious adventure." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "[RED CLIFF] is both a throwback and a change of pace....Filled with wall-to-wall battle scenes..."Los Angeles Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "The set-piece clashes on land and water are immense but teem with fine detail....Woo has created a resounding epic, blending a distinctly Chinese ethos with a Hollywood sense of scale."Uncut20.67605

3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Woo's trademark affection for such traditional ideals as honor, dignity and sacrifice bleed from the screen like proudly-suffered war wounds..."Box Office "[T]he immensity encompasses such variety, subtlety and intimacy that you may find yourself yearning for more....RED CLIFF is a legendary filmmaker's visual symphony."Wall Street Journal "[H]andsome and intelligent and perfectly easy to sit through..."New York Times "The spectacular battle scenes are the engorged heart of the delirious adventure." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "[RED CLIFF] is both a throwback and a change of pace....Filled with wall-to-wall battle scenes..."Los Angeles Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "The set-piece clashes on land and water are immense but teem with fine detail....Woo has created a resounding epic, blending a distinctly Chinese ethos with a Hollywood sense of scale."Uncut20.67605

3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Woo's trademark affection for such traditional ideals as honor, dignity and sacrifice bleed from the screen like proudly-suffered war wounds..."Box Office "[T]he immensity encompasses such variety, subtlety and intimacy that you may find yourself yearning for more....RED CLIFF is a legendary filmmaker's visual symphony."Wall Street Journal "[H]andsome and intelligent and perfectly easy to sit through..."New York Times "The spectacular battle scenes are the engorged heart of the delirious adventure." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "[RED CLIFF] is both a throwback and a change of pace....Filled with wall-to-wall battle scenes..."Los Angeles Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "The set-piece clashes on land and water are immense but teem with fine detail....Woo has created a resounding epic, blending a distinctly Chinese ethos with a Hollywood sense of scale."Uncut20.67605

"An experimental fiction-nonfiction hybrid....The actors in 24 CITY bring their own existential realities to their short, touching performances..."New York Times "Mr. Jia is an artist, one of the most interesting filmmakers working anywhere in the world, and he has made his film to bear witness to a way of life while witnesses could still be found."Wall Street Journal 3 stars out of 5 -- "Puzzling, otherworldly and elegant....A layered, haunting portrait of China in its shift to a capitalist economy."Total Film "[T]he film is an elegiac visual symphony of carefully framed compositions, trompe l'oeil camera movements, posed portraits, internal rhythms and mysterious vignettes."Sight and Sound9.387084

"...Dizzying thrills..." Rolling Stone "...Balletic splatter and camp sentimentality have rarely if ever been stretched to [these] extremes....Outrageous..." New York Times "...Woo pushes the already gonzo conventions of Hong Kong action-melodrama into the stratosphere....It's a hellzapoppin' gunfight festival..." Film Comment "...An example of the highly addictive, supercharged, go-for-broke Hong Kong cinema at its most deliberately outrageous..." Los Angeles Times "Cult action director John Woo's U.S. rep was established when this bullet-ridden Hong Kong import rode a healthy art house run onto some year-end 'best' lists..." USA Today "[T]he scenes of balletic gunplay are often genuinely beautiful -- even spiritual -- as well as disturbing..." Premiere4.956405

"...Dizzying thrills..." Rolling Stone "...Balletic splatter and camp sentimentality have rarely if ever been stretched to [these] extremes....Outrageous..." New York Times "...Woo pushes the already gonzo conventions of Hong Kong action-melodrama into the stratosphere....It's a hellzapoppin' gunfight festival..." Film Comment "...An example of the highly addictive, supercharged, go-for-broke Hong Kong cinema at its most deliberately outrageous..." Los Angeles Times "Cult action director John Woo's U.S. rep was established when this bullet-ridden Hong Kong import rode a healthy art house run onto some year-end 'best' lists..." USA Today "[T]he scenes of balletic gunplay are often genuinely beautiful -- even spiritual -- as well as disturbing..." Premiere4.956405

"...Dizzying thrills..." Rolling Stone "...Balletic splatter and camp sentimentality have rarely if ever been stretched to [these] extremes....Outrageous..." New York Times "...Woo pushes the already gonzo conventions of Hong Kong action-melodrama into the stratosphere....It's a hellzapoppin' gunfight festival..." Film Comment "...An example of the highly addictive, supercharged, go-for-broke Hong Kong cinema at its most deliberately outrageous..." Los Angeles Times "Cult action director John Woo's U.S. rep was established when this bullet-ridden Hong Kong import rode a healthy art house run onto some year-end 'best' lists..." USA Today "[T]he scenes of balletic gunplay are often genuinely beautiful -- even spiritual -- as well as disturbing..." Premiere4.956405